Read about the latest cybersecurity news and get advice on third-party vendor risk management, reporting cybersecurity to the Board, managing cyber risks, benchmarking security performance, and more.
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Read about the latest cybersecurity news and get advice on third-party vendor risk management, reporting cybersecurity to the Board, managing cyber risks, benchmarking security performance, and more.
Bitsight and Google collaborate to reveal global cybersecurity performance
Bitsight and Google collaborate to reveal global cybersecurity performance
This joint study between Bitsight and Google arms organizations with actionable insights, providing the current status of global cybersecurity performance by analyzing nearly 100,000 global organizations across 16 cybersecurity controls and nine industries amid heightened stakeholder demands on cybersecurity strategy.
Today, disruptive risks are an area of focus for corporate directors worldwide. On a global basis, we face disruptions in areas like geopolitical volatility, economic slowdown, emerging technologies, cybersecurity threats, and climate change.
Since creating the Security Ratings market in 2011, a core component of Bitsight’s value to users has been providing industry-leading comprehensive visibility into malware communications.
As regulations shift and providers enter new markets, the telecom industry is changing rapidly. In preparation for these changes, telecom risk management professionals must become aware of new risks on the horizon. Privacy and net neutrality laws, new kinds of cyber threats, reputational dangers, and other factors are all poised to affect telecom companies deeply in 2019.
The development and deployment of software applications is inherently risky; a number of things can go wrong both during development and after launch. Project and product managers must stay aware of risks coming from a variety of areas, including:
In 2019, cyber incidents will be the second most important global business risk. The more cyber incidents that continue to happen on a global scale, the more critical it is for users to understand how to classify the dangers that exist for both businesses and users. In this blog post, we’ll break down the basics and explore the difference between three key areas of cyber risk: vulnerabilities, threats, and exploits.
Enterprise risk management software helps businesses monitor, manage, and mitigate many types of risk. However, procuring and implementing ERM software requires a significant investment, and choosing the solutions that are right for your business is a perennial challenge for risk management professionals.
When it comes to data breach prevention, there are plenty of guides for reducing risk in the long term. While it’s definitely valuable to be working on a data breach prevention strategy with 6-month, 1-year, or 5-year goals, not every cybersecurity initiative takes so much time.
In the months since Bitsight’s inaugural EXCHANGE forum inaugural EXCHANGE forum, we have been digesting and processing the incredible sessions and discussions that came about from this forum. It was a great event that brought together security executives from all over to discuss the challenges they face in their roles every day.
This quarter, Bitsight released several new product features that enable organizations to more rapidly assess, prioritize and manage cyber risk. These new capabilities — the Portfolio Risk Matrix and Asset Risk Matrix — leverage Bitsight’s market-leading data to provide risk prioritization, helping customers address the most important risks within their own environment as well as their broader third-party ecosystem.
After years of debate over whether to impose new cybersecurity regulations on companies, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws went into effect in Europe in May 2018. Already we’ve seen several data breach victims ordered to pay fines under the new rules and cookie disclosure notices are popping up on more websites than ever.
When it comes to security performance management within your organization, how do your security teams measure performance? If they’re using security ratings, they know that this objective, quantitative measurement is an effective place to start when evaluating performance in certain areas.
This past Tuesday, Bitsight was named a Leader in The Forrester New Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Rating Solutions, Q4 2018 evaluation. This report evaluates the current offering and strategy of vendors in a particular technology market, such as security ratings. This is significant, as this is the first analyst report that has a core focus on evaluating security ratings services solutions side-by-side.
In today’s evolving threat landscape, corporate directors are increasingly asking for security performance updates from Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Security Officers, Chief Risk Officers, and other executives.
Businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on outsourced IT services to support day-to-day operations.
In Spain, cybersecurity is becoming more of a priority among businesses across all industries. One way to quantify these cybersecurity postures is by looking at Spain’s security ratings across all markets. In Spain, Bitsight Security Ratings are on average 119 points below Europe as a whole. The highest performing industry is Real Estate, which has a security rating of 71 security rating points better than the European average. The lowest performing industries are Financial Services and Insurance, which are more than 200 security rating points lower than the average European rating. Given the sensitive data financial services companies possess, this report suggests there is a need for additional investment in cybersecurity and cyber risk management. As companies invest in digital transformation programs, their exposure to risk increases and requires an increased investment in risk management across their organization.